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Various Artists - Fort Worth Teen Scene (1964-1967), Vols. 1-3

Compilations of '60s garage music come and go. There's probably been about a million since the godfather of them all -- Nuggets -- appeared in 1972, with Lenny Kaye slyly zeroing in on that moment just before pop's collective self-consciousness kicked in, catching America'

Waylon Jennings - Are You Ready For The Country

Is there a song in the country canon more misunderstood than "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" Popularly read as bemoaning the distance between modern country music and its antecedents -- as, to use one critic's phrase, a "kick in the spangled pants

Mike & Amy Finders Band - Where You Are

Since the late 1990s, the husband-and-wife team of Mike & Amy Finders (rhymes with cinders) have channeled their estimable talents into a catholic mix of vintage and original music that has made them one of the hottest roots acts in the midwest. Where You Are, their third disc, demonstrates yet

Gene Austin - The father of southern pop

As astronomers will tell you, stars often come in pairs, one obvious to the eye, the other unseen. Telltale evidence of interactions between the two is often spotted first in photos -- the obscure binary companion detected in changes in the brighter, noted star. For over 75 years, the hand-tinted

Kenny Buttrey: 1945 to 2004

If alternative-country has ever had a definitive drummer, it would be Kenneth A. Buttrey. After a long battle with cancer, Buttrey died at his Nashville home on September 12, 2004. He was 59. Buttrey brought the mercury to the thin, wild sound Bob Dylan captured on Blonde On Blonde, and

Uncle Dave Macon - Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy

"Now, why can't their records sound as good as that show?" The question is instantly familiar to fans of every sort of down-home music, from old-timey to acoustic blues to thudding roots-rock -- 134 years after the birth of Tennessee's David Harrison Macon, the

Various Artists - Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo

Before he got sick in 2003, Alejandro Escovedo often lamented in interviews that he couldn't understand why no one else recorded his songs. The reason was obvious: His sound -- a peculiar melange of punk rock, chamber music and corrida that sounded like a Norteno version of the